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Quarter 3, Week 2 of 9

IR pages 2 and 3 are due by CLASS TIME on Friday!
Personal Essay Drafts are due by midnight on Friday!

Tuesday, January 20 or Wednesday, January 21
Learning Objective: W.11-12.3 Write narratives to develop real experiences using effective technique and well chosen details, structure, and language. W.11-12.7 Conduct short research projects to answer a question or solve a problem and synthesize multiple sources on a subject.

 Classwork
  1. Do Now: Label today's journal Timed Writing Practice.  You will have 30 minutes to think-about, plan, write, and revise your multi-paragraph response to one of the following prompts:
      1. Some students have a background or story that is so central to their identity that they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.
      2. Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn?
      3. Reflect on a time when you challenged a belief or idea. What prompted you to act? Would you make the same decision again?
  2. After: Use the Personal Essay Rubric to assess your response. Write your score after the response in your journal and use the following marks to identify evidence in the response to support your score:
      • Circle evidence for your Ideas score
      • Underline evidence for your Structure score
      • Square evidence for your Language score
  3. Then: Re-searching for Meaning questions on p.265 and graphic organizer to prepare for next class (Watch video first American Literature Periods: Transcendentalism)
  4. Next: ACT LOG 1 (complete for homework if not done in class)
Target Practice: I can investigate sources and my own writing for transcendentalism's relevance. +/0/-
Homework
Wednesday, January 21 and Thursday, January 22
Learning Objective: RL.11-12.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly. SL.11-12.4 Present information, findings, and supporting evidence conveying a clear and distinct perspective. W.11-12.5 Develop and strengthen writing as needed for a specific purpose.
Classwork
  1. Do Now: Title today's journal What does my Personal Essay have to do with transcendentalism? In a a single paragraph, respond to the question. before responding, look for ideas in your timed writing practice from last class or use a computer to look at your Personal Essay Draft, and p. 265 in your workbook. 
  2. After: Connecting to transcendentalism with Tupac Shakur's In the Depths of Solitude, Joy Harjo's Remember, and Emily Dickinson's A Light Exists in Spring on pp. 266-68 (group roles: facilitator, recorder, summarizer, researcher, presenter)
  3. Then: Group-share of transcendentalist ideas in poems 
  4. Next: How can these poems and/or understanding transcendentalist ideas help you write the Personal Essay Draft?
Target Practice: I can analyze poetry for transcendentalist ideas and use that knowledge to revise my Personal Essay Draft. +/0/- 
Homework
Friday, January 23 (Z Day: ALL CLASSES)
Learning Objective: W.11-12.1 Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics. W.11-12.5 Develop and strengthen writing as needed through planning, revising, editing, and rewriting.
Classwork
  1. Do Now: Title today's journal Personal Essay Graphic Organizer.  Create and complete the following graphic organizer in your journal:

    • Summarize the experience.
      How did you feel at the time of the experience?
      Reflect on the experience.
      Do not draw the bottom line
      of this organizer, so you have
      enough space to respond.
  2. After: Using your responses on the graphic organizer in your journal and the Google Drive draft of your essay,  respond to the first three sections of the Assignment questions on p.299. 
  3. Then: Revise your Personal Essay Draft using your journal, workbook, or any other sources.
  4. During: Check IR pages 2 and 3 for Into the Wild
  5. Next: Read #2 on p. 269 and complete OPTIC analysis of transcendentalist artwork (staple in journal): Thomas Cole's "The Oxbow" and Asher Durand's "Kindred Spirit"
Target Practice: I can explore how visual texts can convey transcendentalist ideas and use that knowledge to revise my Personal Essay Draft. +/0/-

Homework
Vocabulary Enrichment* Reminder:
Complete and e-mail results page to wfisher@kkhs.k12.hi.us.
*These activities are NOT REQUIRED and only open to students with NO 'missing' or 'incomplete' assignments only! 
Enrichment will be calculated at the end of the quarter.
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